Excerpt from The Cabinet History of England, Civil, Military, and Ecclesiastical, Vol. 5: From the Invasion by Julius Caesar to the Year 1846; IX-X Or the French Protestants who escaped, some threw themselves into Rochelle, whence they cast an im lorin eye towards England: others fled across the C anne until every English port on the south coast was crowded With them. The English people would have rushed at once into a war to punish the treachery and cruelty of the French Catholics; but their queen took the matter much more coolly, and peremptorily i'orbadc any of her subjects to take up arms except on their own account, and as private volunteers. She did not recall her ambas sador -nay, she scarcely interrupted her matrimonial treaty, though she was glad to have an op ortunit of telling the French court that a visit to Eng and, which had been projected for her young suitor, the Duke of Alencon, would not be desirable in the present temper of her maple. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.